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| Nearly 80,000 immigrants approved for DACA have arrest records, USCIS report finds |
| 2019-11-17 |
| [FoxNews] Nearly 80,000 immigrants approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which shields those who came to the country illegally as minors from deportation, have an arrest record -- including arrests for violent or sexual offenses. The data released Saturday by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows only arrests or apprehensions for a criminal offense or an immigration-related civil offense and does not take into account whether there was a conviction, acquittal, dismissal or a lessening of charges. The report finds that of the nearly 889,000 applicants for the DACA program, 110,000 had arrest records. Of the more than 765,000 approved for DACA, 79,398 had arrest records. Of that number, 67,861 were arrested before their most recent DACA approval, while 15,903 were arrested after their most recent approval. The offenses incurred by DACA requestors who were arrested before their most recent approval include battery (3,421), assault (3,308), burglary, breaking and entering (1,471), rape (62), murder (15) and theft or larceny (7,926). The largest population arrested were suspected of driving-related offenses excluding DUIs (23,305) and immigration-related offenses (12,968.) The report comes as the Obama-era program’s constitutionality is under examination at the Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case began this week. “As DACA continues to be the subject of both public discourse and ongoing litigation, USCIS remains committed to ensuring transparency and that the American people are informed about those receiving DACA,” USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli said in a statement. “This agency is obligated to continue accepting DACA requests from illegal aliens as a direct result of the previous administration’s decision to circumvent the laws as passed by Congress. We hope this data provides a better sense of the reality of those granted the privilege of a temporary deferral of removal action and work authorization under DACA,” he said. The Trump administration announced its plan to phase out the program in 2017, only for the federal courts to rule that it could not apply retroactively and that DACA should be restarted in full. The White House fought back against those decisions, saying the president has broad authority over immigration enforcement policy. Trump on Tuesday ripped into the program, saying that some in DACA are “far from ‘angels’” but also promising to make a deal to let recipients of the program stay. “Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from ‘angels,’” Trump tweeted. “Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!” Related: DACA: 2019-11-14 California bucks Trump administration lightbulb rollback with tougher state standard DACA: 2019-11-12 DACA lands before Supreme Court: Showdown over Trump bid to end ‘Dreamer’ program DACA: 2019-11-11 Career Diplomats Pushed Back on Trump's Attempt to End ‘Temporary Protected Status' for Central American Migrants |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 "the stupidest thing I ever did in politics." Well, yeah, trusting Democrats is pretty stupid. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-11-17 14:48 |
| #3 ^ "the triumph of Hope over Experience." Dems = Lucy, GOP = Charlie Brown, "immigration reform" is the football The only way it can work is if our idiot political class gets the message, loud and clear, that any deal must be predicated in the notion that there shall be no amnesties. DACA candidates need to render some form of compensation for their offense-- hefty fines and/or (stateside) military service, etc. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-17 08:36 |
| #2 Do you think the Democrats will be able to work with Orange Man Bad to accomplish something he wants, even of it’s something they claim to want, Lex? I suspect his tweet was deliberately intended to shut them up on the subject, though he’d deal if they actually were capable of considering him a fellow member of the human race. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-17 01:31 |
| #1 DACA is the ultimate representation of The Shitshow in all its inglorious virtue-signaling absurdity, incompetence, and disgusting play-acting. DACA = amnesty. To be exact, ANOTHER f---ing amnesty after Reagan, McCain et al. got played in 1986's amnesty, which Reagan later called "the stupidest thing I ever did in politics." Failed then, and elicited tens of millions illegals to bum rush the border and try their luck. If we do Amnesty Part 2, how many tens of millions more illiterate, unskilled peasant aliens -- and this time not just Central Americans but people from all over S. America and even Africa and Asia -- will this foolish Shitshow act attract into this country. Insane = doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. No more f---ing amnesties. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-17 01:25 |